I updated a previous graph, comparing the effective tax rates for the Federal Individual Income and Social Insurance (payroll) by adding Excise and Corporate Income. Additionally, I added the tax rates for the Top 1%. Note: the effective tax rate increases for both individual and corporate income the higher the household’s income, while the social insurance and excise tax rate decreases.
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Minimum household income:
Lowest Quintile $0
Second Quintile $17,900
Middle Quintile $30,500
Fourth Quintile $45,200
Highest Quintile $67,400
Top 1% $307,500
Data from Congressional Budget Office
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Much better graph than before. Thank you.
I’m sorry that I’m not taking the requisite minute to figure this out for myself, but are these effective rates across tax categories additive? I’m thinking the answer is no, given that they are averages of effective rates within a quintile, but I want to be sure.
I do not understand the distrubution of the corporate income tax. Since these taxes are passed on to the consumers I would think that the lower quintiles who have too spend a larger portion of their income would have a higher percentage of it going to this tax.
It would be interesting to expand this graph to include state and lacal taxes.
The CBO (the source of this data) attributes corporate income taxes to the “owners of capital in proportion to their income from interest, dividends, capital gains, and rents.” Other calculations of tax incidence, such as done by the state of Minnesota, figure that consumers and employees pay a portion of the corporate income tax in the form of higher prices and/or lower wages, as the owners of capital will first try to reduce the impact of taxation in these ways before passing it on to shareholders.